Air India has reduced monthly allowances of its employees who have a monthly gross salary of more than Rs 25,000 by up to 50 per cent, according to an internal order of the company.
The order, issued on Thursday, said basic salary and allowances linked to it, such as industrial dearness allowance and house rent allowance, will remain unchanged. However, for “general category officers”, all other allowances would be reduced by 50 per cent, it said.
“General category staff” and “operators” would get all other allowances decreased by 30 per cent, the order said.
Cabin crew members would see all other allowances like check allowance, flying allowance and quick return allowance reduced by 20 per cent, it said.
